Word: indexes
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...were primed for the Dow Jones industrial average to push past the 5000 mark. And it did, surging to 5,0003 before tumbling in a late-day selloff Monday. By the close of the day, the Dow finished at 4,983.09, down 6.86 from Friday's close. Broader market indexes were also lower. The New York Stock Exchange composite index dropped 1.20 to finish at 318.92. The technology-heavy Nasdaq composite skidded to 1,029.47, down 15.56. The Standard & Poor's 500 stocks also fell 3.22 to 596.85. The American Stock Exchange market value index dipped slightly...
...area of discussion is the 1000-1100 SAT range. Under the Academic Index, Penn can take more students with these scores than we can, but we were never going to take hoards of people from that range anyway," he says...
Reardon also expresses doubt about the overall success of the index, citing the exceptions made in order to remedy the failures of the academic index...
Columbia's athletic standings were historically so low that the school was given a temporary release from the academic index. Now that it has built itself back up, that release has ended...
Four straight sessions of record highs ended Tuesday as the Dow Jones industrial average closed down 1.09 to 4,871.81. Declining issues led advances, 1,322 to 930 on a volume of 353 million shares on the New York Stock Exchange. The Nasdaq Composite index fell 17.84 points to close at 1,040.62, while the Standard & Poor's 500 also declined, falling 3.01 points to 589.29. London gold closed lower as well, at $385.75 a drop...